WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama would deliver his last state of the union address to the Congress on January 12.
Obama, who is currently on his year-end vacation in Hawaii, announced this in an email to his supporters on Saturday. "I've got 12 months left to squeeze every ounce of change I can while I'm still in office. And that's what I intend to do," he wrote.
Sent through his 'Obama for America' organization, Obama, the 44th U.S. President, indicated that he would use the occasion to highlight the achievements of his presidency to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
"We've done a lot of remarkable things together this year, and it's because of committed citizens like you that this country keeps moving forward. You keep proving the cynics wrong," he said.
"When we took office, we were losing nearly 750,000 jobs a month. But over the last 69 months, our businesses have created more than 13.7 million new jobs — the longest streak of private-sector job growth on record — and the unemployment rate is down to 5 pct," Obama, who was first elected president in 2008 and then in 2012, wrote.
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